Combination-garment.



WIT/VESSE- F. E. SZEMERE. COMBINAIIQN GARMENT. APPLICATION FlLED AUG-26,1915.

PatBnted July 25, 1916.

. Ill/VENTOH ff Szemera (1 7TOR/VEY8 FREDERICK n. s'zEMEnE, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINATION-GARMENT.

specification of L r n Patented .m lv 27. 1 ans.

Application filed August 26, 1915. se'rial No. 47,391.

To all whom, it ma y concern I Be it known that I, FREDERICK E. SZEMERE,

a subject of the King of Hungary, and a resident of the city of Xew York, (borough of the Bronx,) in the county of Bronx and- 'ofthe United States,-fl 0. 1,152,356, granted 5 to me on Aug1ist'31, .1915.

The object-of the present invention is to provide a new andiinproved combination.

. garment, such-as a combination shirt and union 'sllit, rompers, pajamas, chemisettes and bloomers and the like, and arranged to permit the user to readily convert the garment from a. loose body garment to one with leg portions and vice versa, and while the garment is in position on theusers'body/ In order to accomplish the desired result, use is made of a body split in a vertical direction along the median line of the front and the back to formoverlyingfront and back 'fiaps, the flaps being provided with button.-

holes and means engaging the butonholes for fastening the flaps in position to provide leg portions at the lower end of the garment body.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figurel is a front perspective view of the 4 is a frontperspective view .of the same,

'fiaps in open position.

garment as appliedto a person; Fig. 2 is a rear perspective view of the same; F1g. 3 1s a cross section of the garment with the parts in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2; Fig.

Fig. 5 is a front perspective view of the garment as applied to a person and with the parts in a different position from the one shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 6 isa rear perspect ve view ofthe same; Fig. 7 is a cross sectlon of the garment with'the parts in the position shown in Figs. 5 and. 6; and Flg. 8 1s a front perspective view of the lower portion of the garment and with the front and back The body 10 of the garment is split in a vertical direction along the median llne'of the front to form overlying flaps 11 and 12,

,of which the flap 11 is provided in its upper portion with buttons 13 adapted to be engaged by buttonholes 1t formed in the upper portion of the flap 12 to connect the flaps l1 and 12 with each other with a view to close the body of the garment. The lower por-. tlons of the flaps 11 and 12; are

with spaced buttonholes 15 and 16. The lower portion of the back of the body 10 is split in a vertical direction along the buttonholes 19 and 20 adapted to register with each other and with corresponding buttonholes 15 and 16 on thefrontflaps 11 and .12. The pairs of registering buttonholes 15, 16 and 19, 20 are adapted to'be engaged by a button 21- (see Fig. 7 having two heads and a connecting shank andbeing preferablyof soft material to connect thefront and rear flaps with each other under the crotch with a view to provide leg por tions at the lower end of the body '10.

For long waisted persons the button 21 engages the lowermost buttonholes 19, 20in the rear fiaps 17, 18., and the lowermost buttonholes 15, 16 in the vfront flaps 11 and 12. For short-waisted persons the button 21 is engaged with the lowermost, butonholes.

19, 20 in the rear fiaps17, 18 and with a pair of upper buttonhol s 15,16 in the front flaps 11-, 12. For very short waisted. persons the button 21 is engaged with a pair of upper buttonholes 19, 20 and a pair of upper but tonholes 15, 16 in the front flaps '1-1and12.

The lower front portions of thbodylO are provided with buttons 22 and 23, and the lower ends of'the back flapsl'? and-18 are provided with? buttonholes 24, 25, of

which the buttonhole 24 is, adapted to be en-.

gaged with either button 22 01 23, and the buttonhole 25 is adapted to be engaged with either button 22'or 23, as w ll be 7 readily understood by reference to Figs. 1,

3, 4, 5 and 7. By the arrangement described,

the leg portions are snugly closed around.

the legs. of the wearer, it being understood that when the button 21 is used higher up use is made of the buttonholes 24 or' 25 and the buttons 22 (seeFigs. 1, .3 and 4),

and when the button 21 is used in lowermost 20, the main button 21 can be enga ed with the overlying flaps 11;, 12 and 1 '18, to

provided .65 median line to form overlying flaps 17, 18"

provided in the upper portions with spaced so I snugly rose: the 'arment in the crotch at,

cording to thevform of the we'arersbodyi;

' If the main button 21 is not use'd high up, it is desirable to close the frontfiaps ll and 12 above the buttonhole, and for this purpose an auxiliarybutton 26 is used and engaged wi th."a-- pair of registering buttonholes 15 4 and 16. -neXt above the main button-21, as

plainly indicated in Fig. 7

From the foregoing it will be {Seen that by the arrangement described, the garment can bevery quickly converted from an ormto one having leg and while the garclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters tion of a corresponding body split in Patent:

1. A combination garment, comprising a body split in a vertical direction along the median line of the front and back to form overlying front .and back flaps, fastening means connecting all the front and back flaps with each other at the crotch, and fastening means for connecting the lower portion of each back flap to the lower porfrontflap to provide leg portions at the lower end of the garment body.

2. .'A combination garment, comprising a body split in a vertical direction along the median line of the front and back to form overlying front and back flaps, the flaps being provided with buttonholes, a button engaging registering buttonholes of both front and back flaps for connecting the front and back flaps with each other at the crotch, and buttons on the front lower portions 0 the body and adapted to be engaged by buttonholes of the said backflaps.

3. A combination garment, comprising a a vertical direction along the median line of the front and split in a vertical direction alongthe median line of the lower portion of the back to formoverlying front and back flaps, the upper portions of the front flaps being provided with fastenthe' upper front poring devices for closing tion of the body, the lower portions of {the said front flaps being provided with buttpnholes, the said back flaps be ng-provided with teri tng buttoniioles back'jflaps' with each the. low'enportions of the body. and adapte front andback flaps,

button engaging regisfof the said front and other.,-.and"buttons on buttonholes a. main to b'e engaged by buttonholcs bf the said 4. A combination garment, comprising a' body split in a vertical direction along the median line of the front, and split in a. vertical direction along the median line of the lower portion of the back to form overlying front and back flaps, the upper portions of the front flaps being ing devices for closing the upper front por-. 1 tion of the body,

the lower portions of the provided with fasten y saidfront flaps being provided with buttonholes, the said back flaps being provided with buttonholes, a main button engaging registering buttonholes of the said front and back flaps with each other, buttons on the lower portions of the body and adapted to beengaged by buttonholes of the-said back flaps, and supplementary buttons for fastenin the overlapping front flaps together ab vs the said main button.

it A combination garment, comprising a body split in a vertical direction along the median line of the front and split in a vertical" direction along the median line ofthe lower portion of the back to form overlying the upper portions of the front flaps being provided with fastening devices for closing the upper front porf registering buttonholes of the said front and back flaps with'each other, and two buttons-on the front of each lower portion of the body and adapted to be engaged by the lowermost buttonhole of the correspondingback flap.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name'to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERICK E. SZZEMERE;

Witnesses:

Tnno. G. Hosrnnfl Gnonen H. EarsLrE, 

